Question

In 550 B.C.E. Which leader began the Persian empire along the north east coast of the Persian Gulf

Answer 1

The majority of Persians had settled in the southwest Iranian plateau, bounded on the west by the Tigris River and on the south by the Persian Gulf. Cyrus the Great would advance to defeat the Median, the Lydian, and the Babylonian Empires, opening the way for conquests into Egypt and Asia minor.